‘There are no winners in this. The offences committed against me, when I was a child, can never be undone,’ she said.

Thanking the jury for bringing down ‘the man who buried his past’, she said everyone could now see him for the ‘powerful, manipulative and dishonest man’ he was.

She was a shy 15-year-old when Clifford groomed her for abuse after befriending her middle-class parents on a holiday in Spain in 1977.

He impressed her mother with tales of his celebrity connections and won sympathy recounting the burden of his disabled daughter. He convinced them their ‘pretty’ daughter could be an actress during the course of many visits to their home.

He invited the teenager up to his New Bond Street offices and made her remove her bra, promising to make her the ‘UK version’ of American child actress Jodie Foster.

Over several weeks, he subjected the teenage virgin to a vile campaign of sexual abuse in his yellow Jaguar, made her talk dirty on the phone and played a cruel trick: Pretending that a paparazzi photographer had snapped long-lens pictures of the abuse – ‘so close he could see your freckles’ – that made the naïve schoolgirl suicidal.

Behind the back of her unsuspecting parents, he took her to the Playboy Club in Park Lane and a lingerie shop where he bought her a push-up Wonderbra despite him being her father’s age. He claimed Oscar-winning actress Julie Christie had ordered him to take the 15-year-old’s virginity so she would ‘fall in love with him’.

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He covered his tracks by making the girl lie to her parents. It was 34 years – she waited until they had both died to spare their shame – before she took action to report him.

In 2011, after receiving professional counselling – where she feared she would vomit if she spoke his name – she posted Clifford a damning letter, anonymously, calling him a grade-A paedophile and ‘every little girl’s worst nightmare’.

Tellingly, Clifford kept the letter as a sick ‘trophy’ in his bedside drawer, which is where police found it in December 2012 after she reported him. She finds it very difficult now to reconcile the fact that this letter apparently gave him pleasure, rather than the fear she had hoped for.

It was ‘the first of Clifford’s skeletons to start rattling’, the jury heard.

But instead of admitting defeat, arrogant Clifford branded her ‘mentally disturbed’ and said her accusations were ‘disgusting lies’.

However the jury decided the millionaire ‘PR guru’ was the one who was lying.

Last night the woman, who has a right to
anonymity, told the Mail: ‘As my family and friends are aware, I have
endured a very difficult 19 months.

Support: He was found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault. Above, Clifford and his daughter Louise

‘It took me and other victims many years to pluck up the courage to seek justice. We were young innocent victims of a powerful, manipulative and dishonest man whom, over the years, we saw crowned king of the kiss-and-tell industry.

'A man who outwardly reinvented himself as a man of the people. A man who buried his past, became patron of several charities, and promoted his role as the doting father of a disabled child.

‘As for his victims, he buried them in his past, confident that none of them would have the courage to unveil his sordid and criminal secrets. It took immense courage to raise our heads above the parapet and put our faith in the judicial system which has supported us.

'We were young innocent victims of a
powerful, manipulative and dishonest man whom, over the years, we saw
crowned king of the kiss-and-tell industry'

Unnamed victim

‘His repeated denials led to the ordeal of a trial, having to relive intimate details of our abuse in order to convince a court full of strangers that we were not liars, that our motives were honourable and we simply wanted justice.’

Referring to the celebrities who defended him when he was arrested and also those who went to court as his character witnesses, she said: ‘Unfortunately, none of his victims had the benefit of high-profile friends to vouch for our good character. None of us sought to expose our charitable donations or our historical good deeds. Neither were we given the opportunity to tell the public of the trauma caused to our families, the tragic deaths of our loved ones, our own battles with our health.

‘We had no platform to tell of the fear we experienced. We were desperate to tell everyone how supportive our friends and families had been and how we just wanted the truth to come out. ‘We also had to endure the nightmare where millions of television viewers were told by Mr Clifford that we were liars and fantasists.

Leaving court: During his trial, Clifford denied ever meeting the female victim. He told the jury, looking at 1970s photos of her, that she looked 'a very ordinary looking girl - not very attractive'. Above, Clifford leaves court

‘We heard other high-profile celebrities leap to defend him, speculate and belittle his offences. History was rewritten and we were told that things were “just different back then” in the Seventies.’

The woman, now 51, gave evidence over two days at Southwark Crown Court, during which she was cross-examined and called a liar by Clifford’s defence team.

Clifford himself denied ever meeting her. He told the jury, looking at 1970s photos of her, that she looked ‘a very ordinary looking girl – not very attractive’.

He could ‘not remember’ owning the yellow Jaguar and lined up several witnesses to back him up on this point – until a former mistress testifying for the defence unhelpfully told the jury she did remember the car.

Home: Clifford was bailed on the condition he spends nights at his mansion in Hersham, Surrey (pictured)

Disgraced: Clifford's victim says the key turning point for her was when she realised it was 'his secret', rather than hers. Above, the disgraced publicist is pictured arriving at his Surrey mansion following his conviction

Clifford also brought in a former singing star, Tom Waite, who backed his claim he was not in Spain in August 1977 when Elvis died – the month his victim says they met. But Mr Waite got into a muddle when the prosecution challenged his recall.

Clifford’s victim, who says the key turning point for her was when she realised it was ‘his secret’, rather than hers, stressed she is not being paid to speak out. The Mail has agreed to pay a donation to a charity which helped her.

She said: ‘No monetary compensation would in any way compensate for the childhood that was stolen from some of us by Mr Clifford.’

‘Myths which label victims as
compensation chasers, fantasists and liars only serve to protect those
who are guilty of serious sexual offences'

Unnamed victim

She urged journalists and the media not to accept ‘myths’ spun by the likes of Clifford, who himself coined the phrase ‘witch hunt’ for Operation Yewtree during a TV interview. She called for a debate on whether defendants should be allowed to go on television to protest their innocence, which could potentially prejudice a jury in their favour.

She said: ‘The media bears a huge responsibility for creating prejudice before a trial enabling the accused to protest his innocence on multiple occasions to millions of viewers which further intimidates his victims.’

She added: ‘Myths which label victims as compensation chasers, fantasists and liars only serve to protect those who are guilty of serious sexual offences, some against children and to re-victimise those who have already suffered.’

But the woman said she would urge other victims to come forward, ‘regardless of who the perpetrator is, to be strong, to take courage and to go to the police and report these crimes’.

She said: ‘Only by doing so will we prevent the further suffering of future victims. If this publicity prevents even one child from becoming a victim of abuse then our suffering has not been entirely in vain.’

From models to would-be Bond girls, the victims were all so very young

Suffering: The jury heard several victims of Max Clifford tell of their ordeal at his hands

The jury heard several victims of Max Clifford tell of their ordeal at his hands. ELEANOR HARDING and SAM GREENHILL report.

The former model

The woman came forward as a prosecution witness when she saw Clifford on TV during the Jimmy Savile scandal, saying the police investigation was becoming a ‘celebrity witch hunt’.

‘I got really angry,’ she said. ‘I thought, “He’s trying to cover his back. He’s lying to everyone.”’ Last night, the woman, to whom Clifford exposed himself in his office when she was 19, demanded that he apologise to his victims.

At an audition in 1979 or 1980, Clifford exposed himself to her and said: ‘Look at my penis. Isn’t it tiny? What can I do with this?’ Afterwards, she received a bizarre call from a man with an Italian accent, asking about Clifford’s penis. She realised it was him.

Soon afterwards, she gave up modelling and eventually started her own business. Now 54 and a mother, she has chosen to remain anonymous and has not received money for speaking out.

The Bond girl

The extra in the James Bond film Octopussy kicked Clifford between the legs ‘really hard’ after he shoved her on a sofa and threw himself on top of her.

She said his ‘hands were all over the place and he was trying to kiss me’, adding: ‘I just remember his smelly breath. Then I got very frightened and I kicked him.’

The woman, now 52, said the assault happened in Clifford’s New Bond Street offices, in 1981 or 1982, after he had persuaded her to wear stockings and suspenders for a photo shoot.

Verdict: Guilty

The hopeful teenager

Clifford sexually assaulted the 17-year-old model in his locked office in 1982 or 1983 while on the phone to his wife.

Speaking out: An extra in a James Bond film kicked Clifford between the legs after he shoved her on a sofa

He promised to make her a Bond girl and introduce her to James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli over dinner, but only if she secretly did Clifford sexual favours under the table while he sat next to his wife

He boasted of sleeping with singer Diana Ross before making the 6ft-tall teenager remove her dress and fondling her chest. Then he took a phone call from his wife and at the same time exposed himself.

The woman told the jury: ‘I remember thinking, he’s doing this and he’s talking to his wife.’

Clifford held the model’s head and forced her to perform a sex act on him.

Predator: One woman came forward as a prosecution witness when she saw Clifford on TV during the Jimmy Savile (pictured) scandal

Verdict: Guilty

The dancer

Locked in a nightclub toilet cubicle, Clifford sexually abused the teenage dancer, who thought she would be raped, before saying: ‘No one is going to believe you.’

He had lured the girl, who had been rehearsing at the club, by offering her a part in the Bond movie Octopussy. He made a phone call and tricked her into believing it was to Mr Broccoli.

Verdict: Guilty

The Wimpy schoolgirl

She said that, as a 14-year-old, she feared she would be ‘raped or murdered’ when Clifford picked her up in her school uniform from a Wimpy, offered her a lift home, then lunged at her. She said she was in a blind panic as he groped at her breasts.

She told how he had promised she could meet her idols, the American pop trio the Walker Brothers, before adding: ‘This is what you’ve got to do’, as he flipped her seat back flat and threw himself on top of her.

The woman, now a 62-year-old mother of two, said she had been ‘frozen in fear’ as he touched her ‘all over’ during the alleged attack in South London in 1966.

However, Clifford said he had not passed his driving test in 1966 and did not own a car until 1967. His brother confirmed he had not had a car.

Verdict: Hung jury

The receptionist

The former 18-year-old receptionist alleged Clifford pinned her against a wall in 1975, groped her breast and ‘pushed his tongue into my mouth’.

She later went into his office and saw his secretary performing a sex act, she claimed.

She drew a plan of the office, but Clifford said it bore ‘no resemblance’ to his HQ. The woman said she was employed in Clifford’s office by a businessman with whom he shared it.

Attention: Clifford allegedly tricked a recruitment consultant, 19, into talking about procuring 'young girls' for actor Oliver Reed before grabbing her breasts. Above, he is surrounded by cameras as he leaves court

She said the publicist had made bizarre claims about his clients’ sexual habits during a five-hour 1979 office meeting before sharing a taxi to a station and ‘launching himself’ on her and trying to kiss her. When she pushed him off, he called her ‘a p****-tease’.

Clifford said ‘anybody can see how stupid and ridiculous that is’ because the assault would have been in public, near a taxi driver.